Aaron D. Neufeld- Blog #22

BLOG POST #22- Greenberg Event

In March of 2005, when I was in the ninth grade, one of my good friends, Jacob Greenberg, passed away. He was playing football in the front yard of the school and suffered from sudden heart failure. He dropped to the ground and paramedics couldn’t bring him back to consciousness. He was taken to the hospital where he died the next night. Every year since then, to honor his life and commemorate the day he died, our grade wore suits and held a football tournament amongst friends for fun and for him. Once we graduated high school, we organized a breakfast every year where our grade could come together wearing our suits and honor him. His parents would come too and his teachers would give brief speeches about him.

This year I hadn’t heard that anything was happening and since many of us will be graduating college next year, I know that this may be one of the last times we would be able to organize a decent reunion in his memory. I began planning. After speaking to a friend who assisted in planning one of the previous breakfast’s we had, we decided to organize out biggest memorial service yet. We are once again creating a breakfast memorial in our high school where teachers and his family will give brief speeches. I created a facebook event page for it and it currently has between 30 and 50 people attending which is a very nice turnout for a grade of 180 students who are currently spread out through out the country and the globe in various schools and jobs. That breakfast is this Friday, March 25^th.

In addition to the breakfast, we are planning a basketball tournament in April. This tournament will be to watch our high school’s currently undefeated varsity basketball team against our years’ varsity basketball team. The cost will be $10 and there will be a raffle in which fans can win prizes as nice as a television! All proceeds go to a charity of the Greenberg family’s choice. The facebook event I created for this game already has over 100 people attending with over 50 people maybe attending. This should be a huge success and I am really looking foreword to all of it.